Welcome to Season Two! We are dedicating this second podcast season to The Westmoreland Museum of American Art in Greensburg, Pennsylvania- focusing on the ways they are building bridges in the community in a multitude of local and global ways.  In our first episode, Tereneh and Leah talk with Anne Kraybill, the Richard M. Scaife Director/CEO at The Westmoreland Museum of American Art since 2018.  In this role, she has implemented a new strategic plan, which centers Diversity, Equity, Access, and Inclusion and holds an unwavering belief that the arts can improve lives and strengthen communities, and should be accessible and celebrated for all. Anne takes us on a tour of Border Cantos I Sonic Border, a unique collaboration between American photographer Richard Misrach and Mexican American sculptor/composer Guillermo Galindo. Photographer Richard Misrach and composer/artist Guillermo Galindo began collaborating in 2011, after both artists had created bodies of work inspired by the Mexican-American border region and its human impact. Misrach’s large-scale photographs beautifully capture the various types of landscapes, textures, and experiences found across the almost 2,000-mile dividing line. But, by showing moments of disruption on the land, they also introduce a complicated look at policing the boundary. Galindo’s installation Sonic Border is an original score for eight instruments, created out of discarded objects found and collected at the border. The composition embraces the pre-Columbian belief that there was an intimate connection between an instrument and the material from which it was made, with no separation between spiritual and physical worlds. Based on the Mesoamerican “Venus calendar,” Sonic Border plays for a total of 260 minutes and is separated into 13 cycles of 20 minutes. Within these cycles, the instruments play in small groups of two or more, or all together as an orchestra. The exhibition runs through September 5, 2021 after which it will continue to travel throughout the US. https://thewestmoreland.org/exhibitions/border-cantos-sonic-border/ https://twitter.com/thewestmoreland